Compact Copyright: Quick Answers to Common Questions

When urgent copyright questions arise, this guide helps library workers decode over 50 real-life scenarios with clarity. It covers fair use, contracts, licensing, and new issues like AI and digital trends, offering legal excerpts and actionable pointers for swift, accurate responses. When faculty, students, and colleagues come to you with legal questions and you suddenly find yourself in the thick of a copyright conundrum, you don't need pages of historical background information and long-winded legal explanations — you need answers, fast. Previously included in Choice's Top 75 Titles and Resources for Community College Libraries, this bestselling book gives you just that, succinctly addressing common head-scratchers and scenarios in a way that you will lead you to accurate answers quickly. Ideal for on-the-fly reference, staff training, and LIS instruction, Benson's guide provides excerpts from the law itself alongside tools and suggested additional resources for digging deeper. Compact Copyright skillfully explains legal principles in plain language for more than 50 of the most common real-life scenarios library workers face; includes new chapters on cutting-edge developments such as AI, separability, and copyright and data; provides a primer on contracts and licensing basics, including Creative Commons licensing; explores key topics like the First Sale doctrine, Fair Use, public domain, making copies for preservation, the TEACH Act, interlibrary loan, sovereign immunity, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA); offers pointers on access to copyrighted material for patrons with disabilities and other concepts related to accessibility; discusses select international copyright library issues; and includes a Fair Use checklist, copyright and film screening best practices, and additional recommended reading and materials.